Number of realizations
3
to return (intr.)
→
to become
| Realization | ||
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Geez | |
| Lexeme | gabʔa | |
| Meaning 1 | 'return, leave, turn back, come back' [LGZ 176] | wa-gabʔu wəsta hagar "and they returned to the town Gen. 44:13 [LLA 1168]" |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to become | wa-mawāḳəḥtihā waltā ṣənuʕ yəkawwənaka wagāgāhā ʔalbāsa kəbr yəgabbəʔaka Sir 30:28; daḫart yəgabbəʔu ḳədma Marc 10:31 "’The fetters will be your solid shield, and the chain will be your clothes of honour (lit. Will turn to you as clothes of honour'); 'and the last will become first' [LLA 1168]" |
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| Comment | Cp. also Tigre, where only the meaning 'to become' is present for gabʔa (LH 585) | |
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | ʕāda | |
| Meaning 1 | to turn back, to return | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to become | wa-ʕāda r-raʔs-u minn-ī ka-t̲t̲aġām-i "'And my head began to be [white] like the plant called thagham''" |
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| Comment | Lane 2188 | |
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Soqotri | |
| Lexeme | katénaḥ | |
| Meaning 1 | to return (intr.) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to become | katénaḥ díʔyhən rího dor 'their water was turned to blood' (ad-Daʕrhi et al. 2019:543) |
| Reference | CSOL II page 502 | |
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